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If you read through those posts, you'll notice that I've sort of changed my mind a bit about this. And it's because I had and still have tremendous sympathy for the people whose homes are threatened by the proposed development. But the further along this goes, the more it looks like a net loss for the city if we don't get this hospital built.

Yeah I know you're waffling on it....that's the point. So am I. I go back and forth every time I hear both sides. But I have come to the conclusion that it's better to get behind this than possibly lose the economic potential.

Don't know about that or that they were. I know why the current plan is in place and I agree with it. They are tying to anchor Xavier to downtown...I think that is a great fucking idea. Now unless we can make Xavier float in the air....there is only one way to do that.

I think the economic benefits of this complex far outweigh the downside. That's just how I feel.

I'm dead solid on board with Dambala on this one. I'm thinking that if I were one of the few with a home in the project site I'd jump at a fair value offer and move to the actual Mid-City neighborhood with the money...

As for E's questions...Yes, Yes, and I don't care quite so much about the "less expensive, less destructive" offerings of those with no skin in the game, particularly when I see that option as having almost no chance of doing anything to actually improve the city as a whole when compared to the project as currently proposed. Sorry. The previous Charity medical ghetto meant sub-par inefficient health care for the poor at inflated costs. The new project has a very real chance to eventually become a jobs-producer on the scale of Alabama-Birmingham or even U of Texas.